Anything Good On TV?

[isfet]

TDS, i think you misread Matt.  he's saying that since Straight Story isn't weird, what is the point of watching it?  like, if you want to watch a David Lynch film, you watch it because it's a David Lynch film.

anyway, like Fitz said, Lynch doesn't necessarily do "compelling," which i agree with.  but the thing is, when it's a 2-3 hour movie, it's over and done with.  when it's a 2-season long tv series that has all that 2-3 hour "Lynch-ness" spread out, it doesn't really hit me the same way.

i mean, i'm a pretty big fan of the guy.  i haven't seen everything he's done, but Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are all pretty fun times.  but he's also the type of director who i don't necessarily feel like i need to see everything he's done.  sometimes you see enough of an author to "get" what they're doing and then move on.

i think sometimes he suffers from a lack of depth, or rather, he creates the illusion of depth through vagueness, but i don't think this is always the case.  a movie like Mulholland Drive does make sense, but it sort of requires multiple viewings.  which, one could argue, is a failing of him as a director.  shouldn't people be able to see what you're doing the first time around?

Blue Velvet, though, is the one film of his that i can watch ad infinitum.  Dennis Hopper is just so fucking amazing.

[The Drunken Samurai]

TDS, i think you misread Matt.  he's saying that since Straight Story isn't weird, what is the point of watching it?  like, if you want to watch a David Lynch film, you watch it because it's a David Lynch film.

ok i can get behind that, but yeah matt you should still see the straight story its wonderful.

also while we're on the subject of lynch this mashup thing is wonderful http://www.mashedinplastic.co.uk/

[dmauro]

In terms of Twin Peaks specifically I think it suffers a bit from Catcher in the Rye syndrome. For a lot of people it was the first "weird" tv show they ever saw and so they fell in love.  And like most adolescent loves it was neither as good as remembered nor can you really explain it to someone who didn't get caught by it at that time.

This makes a lot of sense, but the weird thing is that I know some younger generation kids that are REALLY into it. Maybe it just made the rounds a few years ago when they were an impressionable age or something?

[Fitz]

This makes a lot of sense, but the weird thing is that I know some younger generation kids that are REALLY into it. Maybe it just made the rounds a few years ago when they were an impressionable age or something?

Probably, or it may be another route.

I attribute my taste for what is by any objective taste awful musical acts like Throbbing Gristle, the middle career albums from Psychic TV, and a host of obscure Punk/Post-punk/Nowave stuff not to it actually being good but because they were artifacts from a past that it seemed no one else knew about or cared about during a time when that kind of self-obscurant sense of identity was needed for me. As an unintended side effect that was also a cultural signaling system for getting to know similarly self-obscured people, some of whom I ended up having a lot of other things in common with and some that made me rethink my tastes as a result of being around them for more than five minutes.

[dhex]

somewhere in my head i have a 5 second looping .gif file of sinsect trying to jam that piece of bone in his ear.

[Fitz]

http://sinsect.com/

His cousin, who I'm not sure if you ever met, is still kicking around town

http://www.myspace.com/bobbiejeandaniel

[dhex]

she came to some show or another if i remember correctly.

man, time flies...

[Fitz]

She worked the basement at Mother a few times I was there.

[FortNinety]

For those who haven't seen or heard about it yet, the New Kids In The Hall show...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c78840cb55/kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town

[FortNinety]

I've always had a quiet disdain for medical shows, but gotta admit, this did make me laugh...

http://video.hollywoodreporter.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=58089913001

[The Drunken Samurai]

I've always had a quiet disdain for medical shows, but gotta admit, this did make me laugh...

http://video.hollywoodreporter.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=58089913001

am i the only one who noticed that was directed by crazy joe davola?

[FortNinety]

Hey, all of Lost, in less than ten minutes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIFL104E9Ts

... To be honest, not nearly as dreadful looking as I had guessed it to be. Though I'm sticking with my Twin Peaks, thank you very much!

[Fitz]

You may be the only early-90s reactionary I know.

I kind of like that about you.

[FortNinety]

If anything, I am consistent and stoic about my stances.

But seriously, early 90s television was awesome. Gonna go watch some Larry Sanders right now! And then, some Liquid Television that I downloaded a while back.

[dhex]

stoic is just about the last word i'd use to describe you, bruh!

i know i saw a bunch of larry sanders back in college but all i really remember is rip torn (who was awesome) and thinking that if she was drunk enough, i could totally get garafalo. liquid television tingles some bells (i.e. i know i saw it at some point) but is largely a blur, beyond aeon flux, which was a blur on purpose.

speaking of tv, i'm almost loading up the nas with pertinent "the baby won't stop crying" dvd rips. i'm almost done re-watching drawn together and the venture bros seasons 1 - 3.